12 dead and dozens wounded in an attack on the Iranian parliament and Khomeini's mausoleum

12 dead and dozens wounded in an attack on the Iranian parliament and Khomeini's mausoleum


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Iranian media and officials said gunmen and suicide bombers attacked the Iranian parliament, known as the Islamic Shura Council and the tomb of Ayatollah Khomeini in Tehran on Wednesday morning and killed 12 people at least.
The organization announced Daesh responsibility and publish a video in which gunmen appear inside the parliament building and a man injured in what appears on the ground.


This is the first attacks in Iran , declaring the organization Daesh claimed responsibility. And Iran is one of the countries that are fighting militants in neighboring Iraq , the organization has in Syria.
The agency quoted Tasnim semi - official news about Mohammed Hussein Dhulfaqari deputy interior minister , as saying that the attackers disguised in women 's clothes and entered the parliament building in central Tehran from the gate Alriasah.oodhav "One of them was shot dead and another detonated an explosive vest."
After about five hours of initial reports , news agencies reported the killing of four Iranian attackers who carried out the attack on the parliament and the end of the attack.
The radio and television quoted the Iranian body about Bir Hussein Koliond head of emergency management as saying that the attackers killed at least 12 people.
A journalist at the scene who asked not to be named , "I was inside the parliament when the shooting occurred. Everyone was shocked and panic. I saw two men firing at random."
Quoted the official sites for security affairs assistant to Interior Minister Hussein Dhulfaqari, explained the details of what happened yesterday, after gunmen entered the headquarters of the Islamic Shura Council and the shrine of Imam Khomeini, and fired shots, before the suicide bombings are located.
Dhulfaqari said that disguised the women 's body armed, entered the Iranian parliament from the door of the auditors, which is the body that citizens enter them to follow up their cases and to make complaints or to interview a House of Representatives, and they opened fire in that place, which led to the occurrence of numerous injuries, and killed the security guard Protein content there. The gunmen then went into the corridors of the parliament and heard bullets, but Dhulfaqari confirmed that the Revolutionary Guard elements secured the room where the House of Representatives will meet rapidly, as well as rooms specialized parliamentary committees.
He also confirmed that four of them entered the building from one of the sides of the buildings of the Iranian Parliament, and holed up there, and one of them blew himself up with an explosive belt, as security agents managed to kill the rest, adding that most of the building sections have already been secured.
In terms of what happened in the shrine of Imam Khomeini, he pointed Dhulfaqari to the presence of two gunmen tried to enter the place where the burial of Imam Khomeini, one disguised woman, but the security forces became aware of the topic, blew one of them himself with an explosive belt, while the killing of the other, according to confirmed.
He added that security forces killed a second attacker shot.
The Intelligence Ministry said security forces arrested a "terrorist group" was planning a third attack , but gave no further details.
He asked not to be named "tense atmosphere , a senior official. It is a blow to the spiritual. How can four gunmen enter the parliament as always impose tight security measures."
She appealed to the Ministry of Intelligence people to be cautious and report any suspicious movements. Despite unconfirmed reports of hostage reports, the state television said that the parliament resumed his work and show footage of what it described as an opening session. Said Ali Larijani , the speaker of parliament to transfer state television on the air . "Some of the infiltration of terrorists cowards to a building of the parliament session. Authorities responded to them. It was not a great thing. Security forces have taken the necessary steps."
The attacks are rare in Tehran and other large Iranian cities , but a militant group known as Jund Ansar Allah and the Criterion splinter waging a violent insurgency for nearly a decade in the most remote areas. Last year , Iranian authorities said they had foiled a plot to blow up targets for militants in Tehran and other cities during the month of Ramadan.
In the context of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards issued an official statement on Wednesday, is the revenge of the perpetrators of attacking Tehran, which occurred earlier in the day, both in the parliament building and the shrine of Imam Khomeini, and the adoption of the "Daesh" responsibility to them, accusing directly America and Saudi Arabia.
According to the statement published by the official Iranian sites that Guard troops will not tolerate shedding any drop of blood in Iran, and will not hesitate in defending the rights of the Iranians.
Guard forces were accused of fingers of both America and Saudi Arabia; the statement reported that the occurrence of these operations shortly after the Riyadh conference was held in the presence of US President, Donald Trump, and the adoption of "Daesh" for two shows the involvement of these.
For his part, Iranian President Hassan Rowhani issued a statement commenting on the attacks, you should contact the Iranians , saying that these plans were expected at a time when the country paid since the victory of the Islamic revolution expensive to confront plots, considering that the situation in the Islamic Republic is good, and said that the security and intelligence, military and defense authorities the perfect harmony.
Rowhani also said that there are some parties that bear the evil of Iran and is working to weaken it, whereupon hiring takfiri elements with the mentality of fossilized, ignoring that the unity of the Iranians and their culture is able to break these schemes, he said.
He said the Iranian president that the attacks would increase Iran's insistence on the face of terrorist organizations, and said that the Iranian message is the same, for all the Union together to confront this threat regionally and internationally, which requires the seriousness of the will by the international community as a whole. The Iranian agency also reported that the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who is supposed to meet with a number of students in later today, will deliver a speech expected to comment in which Tehran attacks, will also hold members of the security meeting attended by Interior Minister Abdul Ridha Rahmani Fazli, to discuss the merits of the subject.


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